Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-26
GOOD STORIES or STUDENTS.
A Stern Examiner Who Carried Out His
Threat-Adventures Of the Crib.


Stern Examiner Who Carried Out His
Threat-Adventureso Of the Crib.
Among stories of examinations those
that are most popular with the students
are told at the expense of the examin-
ers, says the st. James Gazette. We
have two capital ones at Edinburgh
According to the first an examiner had
made himself obnoxious by warning the
students against putting their hats on
his desk. The university in the Scot
fish capital is remarkable for scarcity
of cloak-rooms, and in the excitement
of examination hats are, or used to be,
flung down anywhere. This examiner
announced one day that if he found an
other hat on his desk he would rip it
up. Next day no hats were laid there
when the students assembled. Pres
emily, however, tine examiner was
called out of the room. Then some
naughty undergraduate slipped from
his seat, got the examiners hat, and
placed it on the desk. When the ex-
|aminer re-entered the hall every eye
was fixed on him. He observed the hat
and CLEAN of triumph shot across his
face. Gentlemen" he said, II told
you what would happen if this occurred
again" Then he took his pen-knife
from his pocket, opened it, and blandly
cut the hat in pieces, amid loud and
prolonged applause. They do say that
there were other examiners in the room
at the time who could have warned him
had they chosen.
Another story iI1ustrotos tho foot &hot
the student may sometimes be too
much for his examiner. Soon after the
examination opened he was observed
looking around him stealthily, as if
meditating guile. From the other end
of the hall the examiners watched him
narrowly; so did number of students.
He took handkerchief from his pocket
and spread it over his knee. Every
few minutes he lifted up the handker-
chief and looked beneath it, and then
wrote with renewed vigor. It seemed
clear case of copying, so an active ex-
aminer bounced upon him. The stu
dent whisked the handkerchief into his
pocket. "Come, Mr.. -" said the
examiner, II must see your banker
chief" @Certainly, SIR" said the stu
dent, blandly, showing it to him. Then
the pocket was searched, with no re-
result The student began to grin and
then the other competitors, and then
the other examiners followed suit.
Obviously it was a practical joke,
though at the time no one understood
how practical The crestfallen exam-
iner returned to his desk and soon af-
terward the student took small book
from his pocket, spread it upon his
knee and seemed to resume his old
tactics. The fear of being "sold again"
kept the examiner from interfering this
time; but when they looked at his pa
per subsequently it was seen that his
answes had come from a "crib."
Whether his ingenuity availed him in
the end I cannot say. A better story,
in the opinion of the examiners, is one
of student who made miniature crib
for himself. meaning to smuggle it up
his sleeve into the examination-room.
He forgot it, however, and his mother,
finding it in his room. hurried to the
university with it and sent it by mes
senger to the examiner, asking him to
give it at once to her son, as she knew
it was something very important.